Date Posted:08:14:40 11/06/09 Fri
Tim, I was one of eight children & six of us were born in the '50s. My mother was trained as a nurse but never got her RN. She treated us when we were sick & we got taken to the clinic only if she could not make a diagnosis or if the treatment was beyond her scope. So, in my experience, 'No' we didn't get penicillin shots at the drop of a hat (or pants).
I think I know what George meant by his comment 'medicine was young' but I would clarify that as 'medicine didn't have all the resources & capabilities that it has now' and relatively speaking, it wasn't so darn expensive. I spent 10 days in a hospital in 1957 for chest surgery. I went home a couple of hours after eye surgery last year.
